Neck-yoke.



.13., A. & J. SOHRUTH.

NECK YOKE.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 20, 1913.

1,077,645. Patnted Nov. 4, 1913.

rrnp s'rans EAEN orrro- EDWARD SCI-IRUTH, ALBERT SCHRUTI-I, AND JOHN SCI-IRUTH, 0F PEPIN, WISCONSIN.-

NECK-YOKE.

Specification of Letters 1 atent. i Patented NO 4}, 1913;.

Application filed March 20, 1913. Serial No. 755,738. I I

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, EDWARD SOHRUTH, ALBERT SCHRUTI-I, and JOHN Sci-morn, citi- Zens of the United States of America, and residents of Pepin, in the county of Pepin and State of lVisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Neck- Yokes, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates particularly to means for detachably connecting neck yokes to the tongues of vehicles and an object of the invention is to provide novel means for detachably securing said neck yokes in place in order to permit the ready application or removal of the said neck yokes.

A still further object of this invention is to provide a guard guided by the neck yoke coupling whereby the said guard 'may be moved to permit a coupling or uncoupling of the neck yoke with the object with which it is connected, the guard being automatically held in position to prevent disengage ment of the interengaging parts but capable of manipulation to unguard the same and permit detachment of the interengaging members.

With the foregoing and other objects in view, the invention consists in the details of construction, and in the arrangement and combination of parts to be hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed.

in describing the invention in detail, ref erence will be had to the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification wherein like characters denote corresponding parts in the several views, and in which-- Figure 1 illustrates a view in elevation of the front of a wagon tongue showing the neck yoke applied thereto; Fig. 2 illustrates a view in elevation, partly in section, of one of the yokes; Fig. 3 illustrates a sectional view on the line 33 of Fig. 2; Fig. at illustrates a sectional view on the line et l.- of Fi 2; Fig. 5 illustrates a sectional view of a fragment of one of the neck yokes showing the manner of attaching the spring thereto; and Fig. 6 illustrates a view in elevation of a fragment of the yoke illustrating the end thereof to which the spring is anchored.

In these drawings 5 denotes the end of the tongue of a vehicle, 6 a yoke and 7, 7, twin yokes to which the harness rigging is connected, it being understood that the said yoke has a ferrule 8 which is associated with aring 9 for attachment of the harness rigging of whatever nature. The opposite endof'each yoke has a collar 10 and a connection 11 for the harness rigging, the said collar 10 having at its inner margin a small loop 12 forminga seat for one end of the spring 13, the extremity of which spring 13 is bent to form a lug 1 1 engaging the side of the loop 12 and serving to retain the spring in place, it being observed that longitudinal movement of the spring is prevented by having the spring reduced in width to form the shoulders 14: which bear against the inner edge of that portion of the collar 10 forming the loop so that said spring is efi'ectually retained in place, although as shown in the drawing the lug 14 at itsjunction with the spring also bears against an edge of the collar, a portion of which is cut away in forming the loop so that a seat is formed for the spring, as stated. The spring 13 extends longitudinally of the yoke and terminates about midway the length of said yoke in a guard 15 produced by bending the spring at an angle and furthermore curving that angularly bent portion as shown in Fig. 2, it being understood that the outer end of the spring which is anchored to the collar 10 is bent so as to normally retain the spring at its inner end in spaced relation to the yoke so that the spring action thereof will be to cause it to move away from the yoke rather than toward it. The guard 15 coacts with the means for coupling the twin yoke to the neck yoke and this coupling device consists of a collar 16 secured to the neck yoke by means of the screw 17 or other fastening, the said collar having on one side a hook 18 adapted to engage a ring or other device carried by the neck yoke. The collar 16 is also provided with a recessed boss or lug 19 which is in spaced relation to the end of the hook 18, the guard 15 of the spring 13 when in normal position occupying the space between the end of the hook and the boss and acting, as stated, as a guard to prevent passage through the space between the end of a the hook and the boss of the ring or device clearance of the space between the end of the hook and theboss so that the twin yoke may be uncoupled or detached from the neck yoke. The relation of the guard to the boss is suchthat a slightiportion of the guard is always within the cavityor recess so that lateral displacement of the guard is prevented and a proper entrance of the guard to the recess is insured, upon pressure of the spring, as stated.

1. In a neck yoke, a yoke member, a collar secured intermediate the length of the member, a hook formed on said collar, a boss integral with the collar and in spaced relation to the end of the hook, said boss having a recess therein, a collar on the end of the yoke member, a loop formed on the said collar, a spring having one end secured in the loop, a guard formed on the opposite end of said spring, said guard lying within the recess of the collar and adapted to engage the end of the hook for guarding the Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents.

space between the end of the hook and the boss.

2. In a neck yoke, a yoke member, a collar secured intermediate the length of the said yoke member, a hook formed integral a that portion of the spring within the loop being reduced in width and having shoulders engaglng the inner edge of the collar to prevent displacement of the said sprmg,

and a guard formed on the inner end of the spring lying in the space between the end of the hook and the boss.

In testlmony whereof, we hereunto aflix our signatures in the presence of two witnesses.

EDWVARD SCHRUTH. ALBERT SCHRUTH. JOHN SCHRUTH. lVitnesses:

ILL G. J ULIOT, G. W. MOORE.

Washington, D. C. 

